40 Fun Facts About Bad Grandpa

Where does Irving Zisman stash his late wife's body for the cross-country drive in Bad Grandpa?

The trunk of his car is where Irving puts her, with help from two unwitting furniture movers. He is meant to be in mourning, but the film opens with him celebrating being single again.

Irving Zisman crashes his car into a giant statue of which animal outside a diner in Bad Grandpa?

A penguin, the diner's giant mascot, is wrecked beyond repair, and a furious man from the restaurant keeps insisting that the elderly driver fix it.

In an early Bad Grandpa prank, Irving Zisman gets a body part trapped in what as onlookers gape?

A vending machine traps him in the gag that the Rotten Tomatoes critics' consensus singled out as one of the film's timeless pleasures.

At a funeral near the start of Bad Grandpa, what is knocked over in front of the horrified mourners?

The coffin goes over and the body spills out, a prank that critics picked out alongside the pageant as one of the most skilfully staged in the film.

Which Jackass star plays 86-year-old Irving Zisman, the title character of Bad Grandpa?

Johnny Knoxville first played Irving in the final season of the Jackass TV series, and the lecherous pensioner kept turning up in the films until he got one of his own.

At which game does Irving Zisman horrify the players beside him by drinking something in Bad Grandpa?

Bingo players mark their cards with ink dabbers, and Irving swigs the lime-green contents of his in front of the pensioners sitting next to him.

What kind of faulty machine hurls Irving Zisman through a plate-glass shop window in Bad Grandpa?

A kiddie ride outside a shop seems to be broken when Billy tries it, then fires his grandfather through the window the moment he climbs on.

Which part of Bad Grandpa's production earned the Jackass series its first Oscar nomination?

The old-age makeup that turned a stuntman in his forties into an 86-year-old was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 2014 Oscars, where it lost to a serious drama.

Reviewers likened Bad Grandpa's road trip of pranks on real people to which 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen film?

Borat set the template: an invented character crossing America whose victims are real. Bad Grandpa was the first Jackass film to hang its stunts on a story in the same way.

During Bad Grandpa, Billy walks up to men he has never met and asks them to become what?

His new dad is what Billy asks baffled strangers to be, in a running gag that critics praised for the young actor's comic timing.

Why can Billy's mother Kimmie no longer look after him at the start of Bad Grandpa?

She is going to jail for breaking her parole, so the boy is left with a grandfather who had been looking forward to his freedom.

Irving Zisman must deliver Billy to his father in which state at the end of Bad Grandpa's road trip?

North Carolina is where Billy's deadbeat father is waiting, and Irving has until two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon to hand the boy over in Raleigh.

Irving Zisman topples a tower of champagne glasses during a group photo at which event in Bad Grandpa?

A wedding reception is ruined twice over: after the glasses collapse, Irving falls onto the table and flattens the cake as well.

Bad Grandpa .5, a version with over 40 minutes of unused footage, premiered in 2014 on which TV network?

MTV, the channel where Jackass began in 2000, showed the longer cut with its extra outtakes and interviews a few weeks before it reached DVD and Blu-ray.

Early in Bad Grandpa, how does Irving Zisman try to send Billy to his father without making the trip himself?

Ship him as a parcel is Irving's first idea, so he takes the boy to be posted across the country like a package. The attempt fails and the two hit the road.

What do Irving and Billy make for themselves in a supermarket before leaving without paying in Bad Grandpa?

Sandwiches of stolen bread, ham and mustard are put together right there in the store, and an angry manager then blocks Irving's way back to his car.

Hoping to meet women, Irving Zisman ends up dancing for a horrified crowd at what kind of venue in Bad Grandpa?

A male strip club is where Irving joins in the dancing, to the disgust of the women in the audience. Variety predicted it would be the film's most talked-about sequence.

Which piece of furniture springs shut on Irving Zisman, trapping him between its two halves, in Bad Grandpa?

An adjustable bed, spring-loaded for the stunt, clamps shut on him like a pair of jaws. It is one of only a handful of big physical stunts in a film built mostly on pranks.

Critics compared Billy's pageant finale in Bad Grandpa to which earlier road-trip comedy?

Little Miss Sunshine was the comparison that both Variety and TheWrap reached for, since Billy's big scene sends up the world of children's beauty contests.

Where do Irving and Billy finally dispose of the body they have carried across America in Bad Grandpa?

In a river is where she ends up, thrown from a bridge by the pair once Billy is safely back in his grandfather's care.

Bad Grandpa is dedicated to which Jackass cast member, who died in a car crash in 2011?

Ryan Dunn, a Jackass regular since the TV series, died aged 34 in June 2011, and Bad Grandpa was the team's first cinema release after his death.

Which Matthew McConaughey drama beat Bad Grandpa to the only Oscar it was nominated for?

Dallas Buyers Club took the award at the 2014 ceremony, where it also won both of the male acting Oscars.

Bad Grandpa opened at number one in North America, ending the three-week reign of which 2013 sci-fi hit?

Gravity had led the box office for three weekends before a $32 million debut from a prank comedy pushed it into second place.

Which Bad Grandpa co-writer won a screenwriting Oscar for Her on the night Bad Grandpa lost its own nomination?

Spike Jonze, a co-creator of Jackass, had two films at the 2014 Oscars: the romance he wrote and directed, and the prank comedy he co-wrote and produced.

Which Hollywood studio released Bad Grandpa in cinemas, as it had the three Jackass films before it?

Paramount Pictures had released all three earlier Jackass films, and this one took in about ten times its $15 million budget worldwide.

Which director of all the main Jackass films also directed and co-wrote Bad Grandpa?

Jeff Tremaine co-created Jackass, had directed all three of its earlier cinema releases and went on to direct the two sequels that followed.

Which Oscar-nominated actress from Capote plays the dead wife of Irving Zisman in Bad Grandpa?

Catherine Keener, twice nominated for Best Supporting Actress, is credited as the late Mrs Zisman, whose death leaves her husband ready to party as the film begins.

Which glam-metal hit blasts out when Billy's pageant routine turns into a striptease in Bad Grandpa?

Cherry Pie, the Warrant single, kicks in after the routine opens with a gentle old sea song, at which point a prop boat becomes a stage and the pageant mothers look on in shock.

Bad Grandpa's director went on to make which 2019 Netflix biopic about the rock band Mötley Crüe?

The Dirt was a film he said he had wanted to make ever since reading the band's memoir of the same name in 2002.

The boy who plays Billy in Bad Grandpa had played the son of which actor's character in The Fighter?

Christian Bale played a former boxer in that 2010 drama, released three years before Bad Grandpa turned his young screen son into a comedy lead.

Which young actor plays Billy, the grandson Irving Zisman drives across America in Bad Grandpa?

Jackson Nicoll impressed critics by holding his own with the unsuspecting public, and one reviewer wrote that he drew more laughs than the film's adult star.

Bad Grandpa's star first worked with the boy who plays Billy on which 2012 Halloween comedy?

Fun Size is where the youngster trailed the Jackass star around the set, insulting and hitting him between takes, and so won the part of his grandson.

Much of Bad Grandpa was filmed in which Midwestern state, including scenes shot in its capital city?

Ohio stood in for much of the route: the crew worked in Cleveland and Columbus as well as in the state where the story ends.

Irving Zisman's drive with Billy in Bad Grandpa sets out from which Great Plains state?

Nebraska is the starting point, so delivering Billy means crossing roughly half the United States, with a new prank at almost every stop.

The first scene shot for Bad Grandpa had Irving Zisman, working as a groundskeeper, enraging which group?

Golfers on a real course were the first victims, and the film's star said the results were so funny that all of his hesitancy about the project washed away.

Which biker group devoted to protecting abused kids steps in when Billy's father mistreats him in Bad Grandpa?

Guardians of the Children members hold the father back while Irving walks out with Billy, the moment the old man finally chooses to keep his grandson.

Bad Grandpa's director once edited which skateboarding magazine, whose stunt videos helped inspire Jackass?

Big Brother took the article in which the future star of Jackass tested pepper spray, a stun gun and a taser on himself, and persuaded him to film it as a stunt.

Bad Grandpa was the second 'Jackass Presents' film; the first, in 2008, paid tribute to which daredevil?

Evel Knievel had died only six months before the release of that straight-to-DVD tribute, which carried the name of the BMX rider Mat Hoffman in its title.

Bad Grandpa's star went back to stunts tied together by a story in which 2018 comedy about a dangerous theme park?

Action Point was inspired by Action Park, a New Jersey amusement park notorious for unsafe rides, and repeated the trick of hanging real stunts on a fictional story.

The boy who plays Billy in Bad Grandpa gave up acting as a teenager for which line of work?

Deep-sea fishing is the family business in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and after a last film role in 2017 he stepped back from acting to crew its 90-foot boat.